An auction website in Sweden is facing a big issue with scammers trying to buy items for sale on auction websites. When you initiate contact with the potential buyer things get nasty and you might lose money. One of these scammers tried to scam my wife, I decided to follow their scam and document the entire process. This is nothing new, and most of the auction websites have written about this to inform their users, but they do not explain in detail how these scams actually work their FAQs only advise people to be careful. The fraudsters next tried to get me to transfer the shipping cost, in this case 1700 SEK about $200.”]
Source: https://securelist.com/understanding-the-operations-of-a-scam/69120/